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This application is filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, BNSS ), seeking pre-arrest bail.

2. The applicants are the accused Nos.3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 in Crime No.28/2026 of Chirayinkeezhu Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 189 (2), 191(2), 191(3), 296(b), 115(2), 118(1), 74 and 324(5) read with Section 190 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 . 3. The prosecution case, in short, is that, on

16.01.2026 at about 08:00 p.m., at a place called Kavinmoola Junction, the applicants along with the remaining accused formed an unlawful assembly and in prosecution of their common object, assaulted the de facto complainant, his brother, mother and others with weapon, further the accused No.2 laid over the body of the de facto complainant and bit her on her cheek with the intent to outrage her modesty.

4. I have heard Sri. M.R.Sarin, the learned counsel for the applicants and Sri. M.C.Ashi, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The learned counsel for the applicants submitted that the applicants are innocent and have been falsely implicated in the above